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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:53:33 PST8
From:	"John A. Morrow, Jr." <ja_morrow@yahoo.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Tweaking FAT32.IFS to Boost Performance

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--- Steven Levine wrote:
> In <20050321000211.64571.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com>, on
> 03/20/05
> at 04:02 PM, "John A. Morrow, Jr."
> said:

> >part of the files get copied then the CPU pegs at 97 to 99
> percent, and
> >copying slows to a crawl. Available memory stays in the 30 to
> 40 MB
> >range.
>
> Are you sure you are running the latest fat32 ifs and fm/2
> drops?

Reasonably sure, with FAT32.IFS anyway, as it came with eCS 1.2.

>
> >IFS=M:\OS2\JFS.IFS /LW:5,20,4 /AUTOCHECK:*
> >IFS=M:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:*
> >IFS=M:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS /CACHE:2048 /Q
> >CALL=M:\OS2\CACHEF32.EXE /S
>
> While it's possible you need to tweak the fat32 ifs settings,
> this is better asked on the fat32 user yahoo group.

Noted.

>
> Since you are copying to a fat32 file system, the problem
> could be related
> to your fm/2 settings. RMB on the fat32 drive in the drive
> tree. Select
> Edit -> Drive Flags and turn off the options that don't apply.
> Turning
> off the EA related options for file systems that do not
> support EAs will
> improve performance. It's also useful for preventing EAs from
> propagating
> to file systems where you really don't need them.
>
> I do not think the file size is an issue. Fm/2 does not cache
> the file
> content in memory and I doubt you have enough files in the
> directory tree
> to be a concern.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven

Thanks for the pearls of wisdom :) I'll give it a go.

John

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